Will Lee
Date of birth: 1908-08-06
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
Biography
William Lee (born William Lubovsky; August 6, 1908 – December 7, 1982) was an American actor who appeared in numerous television and film roles, but was best known for playing Mr. Hooper, the original store proprietor of the eponymous Hooper's Store. He was one of the four original human characters on Sesame Street, from the show's debut in November 1969 until his death on December 7, 1982, at the age of 74. Description above from the Wikipedia article Will Lee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
A Sesame Street Christmas Carol
2006-12-01
Oscar the Grouch is visited by three ghosts in an attempt to teach him the true meaning of Christmas
Melody Lane
1941-12-09
In this musical, four entertaining farmboys from Iowa head for the Big Apple to find fame and fortun
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
1978-12-08
Leslie Uggams hosts this take on A Christmas Carol, where she and fellow guest stars, Anne Murray, I
They Live by Night
1949-11-01
An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to he
Casbah
1948-04-01
Pepe Le Moko leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to
Little Fugitive
1953-10-01
After a prank makes Joey Norton believe he killed his older brother, he runs away from home and spen
Hit and Run
1982-05-21
Still grieving his young wife's death in a hit-and-run accident, Manhattan cab-driver David Marks ac
Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days
2010-01-05
A look back at 40 years of Seasame Street.
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021-04-23
Take a stroll down Sesame Street and witness the birth of the most influential children's show in te
Backfire
1950-01-26
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy S
Shakedown
1950-09-01
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the succes
Ball of Fire
1941-12-02
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. Whe
Saboteur
1942-04-24
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of sta
Whistling in the Dark
1941-08-08
Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenou
Playing for Time
1980-09-30
When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians fi
Babes on Broadway
1941-12-31
Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any ch
Daniel
1983-08-26
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Sovie
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
1978-12-03
Big Bird worries when Oscar tells him that if Santa Claus can't fit down the chimney on Christmas Ev
An Affair of the Skin
1963-11-20
A neurotic woman, her unhappy husband and three other New Yorkers share a complicated relationship.
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
1979-03-01
Sesame Street celebrated its 10th anniversary in the spring of 1979 with a half-hour PBS special hos
Nourish the Beast
1974-06-05
Baba Goya is a loudmouth mother who goes through husbands and orphans like the Turkish coffee she ma
This Way to Sesame Street
1969-11-08
A commercial television preview of the new children's educational series, Sesame Street.
Sesame Street at Night?
1977-03-01
Shalit is to host an adult 'look' at Sesame Street in a Festival '77 special for PBS. The 30-minute